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Question Time Season 42, Episode 1: 09/01/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Oxford. On the panel: Brandon Lewis MP, minister for security and deputy for EU Exit and No Deal preparation, Conservative; Clive Lewis MP, shadow minister for Sustainable Economics and a candidate for the leadership of the Labour Party, Labour; Max Hastings, author, military historian, former editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph and former editor of the Evening Standard; Miatta Fahnbulleh, Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation; and Anne McElvoy, broadcaster and Senior Editor at The Economist. Watch Question Time Season 42, Episode 1 09/01/2020 in HD free online. Enjoy high-quality streaming of Question Time Season 42, Episode 1 and share your thoughts in the comments below!
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37 episodes
09/01/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Oxford. On the panel: Brandon Lewis MP, minister for security and deputy for EU Exit and No Deal preparation, Conservative; Clive Lewis MP, shadow minister for Sustainable Economics and a candidate for the leadership of the Labour Party, Labour; Max Hastings, author, military historian, former editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph and former editor of the Evening Standard; Miatta Fahnbulleh, Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation; and Anne McElvoy, broadcaster and Senior Editor at The Economist.
60 min
16/01/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Liverpool. On the panel: Helen Whately MP, Culture Minister, Conservative; Shami Chakrabarti, Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales and a Labour peer, Labour; Alyn Smith MP, Westminster Shadow Spokesperson for International Affairs and Europe, SNP; Madeline Grant, Assistant Comment Editor, The Daily Telegraph; and Laurence Fox, actor and musician, best known for playing DC Hathaway in ITV's detective drama 'Lewis'.
60 min
23/01/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate in Stoke Newington. On the panel: Theresa Villiers MP, secretary of state for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Conservative; Emily Thornberry MP, shadow foreign secretary and candidate for the Labour leadership, Labour; Trevor Phillips, businessman, broadcaster and campaigner on equality; Mike Barton, former chief constable of Durham Police; and deputy editor of the Sunday Times, Sarah Baxter.
60 min
30/01/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Buxton. On the panel: James Cleverly MP, chairman of the Conservative party, Conservative; Sarah Jones MP, shadow housing minister, Labour; Minette Batters, president of the National Farmers Union; Sacha Lord, cocreator of the Parklife Festival and the Warehouse Project and Greater Manchester’s night time economy adviser; and comedian, writer and political commentator, Geoff Norcott.
60 min
06/02/2020
Fiona Bruce chairs an hour of topical debate from Harpenden. On the panel: Robert Buckland MP, secretary of state for justice, Conservative; Stella Creasy MP, Labour; Ed Davey MP, acting leader of the Liberal Democrats and former energy secretary in the coalition government; journalist and author of a book on the Middle East, Rachel Shabi; and actor, campaigner and TV presenter Adam Pearson.
60 min
13/02/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Dundee. On the panel: Tom Tugendhat MP, chair of the foreign affairs select committee at Westminster and a Conservative; Ian Murray MP, the last remaining Labour MP in Scotland and candidate for deputy leader of the Labour Party; Joanna Cherry MP, SNP justice and home affairs spokesperson at Westminster; Val McDermid, bestselling, prize-winning crime writer; and Alex Massie, Scotland editor of the Spectator magazine.
60 min
20/02/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Weymouth. On the panel: George Eustice MP, secretary of state for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Conservative; Alison McGovern MP, chair of the Labour political organisation Progress, Labour; Howard Davies, chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland, former Director of the London School for Economics, and the first chairman of the Financial Services Authority; Ash Sarkar, journalist, commentator and contributing editor at Novara Media; and Michael Portillo, broadcaster and former Conservative politician.
60 min
27/02/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Middlesbrough. On the panel, business and industry minister Nadhim Zahawi MP; Jon Ashworth MP, shadow health secretary, Labour; John Bird, founder of The Big Issue and crossbench peer; Alison Phillips, editor of the Daily Mirror newspaper; and Ayesha Vardag, celebrity divorce lawyer, known for strengthening the status of pre-nuptial agreements in English law.
60 min
05/03/2020
Fiona Bruce chairs an hour of topical debate from Tunbridge Wells. On the panel: Matt Hancock MP, secretary of state for Health, Conservative; Margaret Beckett MP, former foreign secretary and deputy leader of the Labour Party, Labour; Layla Moran MP, education spokesperson, Liberal Democrats; Tim Stanley, journalist and Daily Telegraph columnist; and Xander van Tullekin, doctor, author and television presenter on CBBC's 'Operation Ouch' and a range of programmes on issues such as diet, binge drinking and health.
60 min
12/03/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from West Bromwich. On the panel, Steve Barclay MP, chief secretary to the treasury, former Brexit secretary under Theresa May and Boris Johnson, Conservative; Louise Haigh MP, shadow policing minister, Labour; Pete Wishart MP, SNP shadow leader of the House of Commons, and chair of the Scottish affairs select committee, SNP; Richard Walker, managing director of the supermarket chain, Iceland Foods; and Professor John Ashton, former director of public health in the north west and former professor of public health at Southampton University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
60 min
19/03/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Weston-super-Mare. On the panel: secretary of state for health Matt Hancock MP, Mayor of Greater Manchester and former secretary of state for health Andy Burnham, chair of neurology and director of the National Institute for Health Research, Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections at the University of Liverpool Tom Solomon, general secretary of the British Trades Union Congress Frances O'Grady and chef, author, television presenter and restaurant owner Angela Hartnett.
60 min
26/03/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with questions from West London and live social media reaction. On the panel: Robert Jenrick MP, secretary of state for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Conservative; Emily Thornberry MP, shadow foreign secretary, Labour; Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of the medical journal The Lancet; and Humphrey Cobbold, chief executive officer of PureGym, the UK's leading gym provider.
60 min
02/04/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from West London, with audience questions from Rugby and live question and comments from social media. On the panel: Matt Hancock MP, health secretary, Conservative; Yvette Cooper MP, chair of the commons' home affairs select committee, former secretary of state for work and pensions under Gordon Brown, former shadow health Secretary, Labour; Dame Donna Kinnair, nurse and chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing; and the archbishop of York, John Sentamu.
60 min
09/04/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from West London, with audience questions from Uxbridge and live question and comments from social media. On the panel: secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Brandon Lewis; shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and shadow minister for the cabinet office, Rachel Reeves; professor of experimental medicine at Imperial College and a member of the NERVTAG committee (New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats) advising government, Peter Openshaw; Scottish musician, social campaigner and winner of the 2018 Orwell Prize author Darren McGarvey; and actress, comedian, psychotherapist and author, Ruby Wax.
60 min
16/04/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate. On the panel are Robert Buckland MP, justice secretary and lord chancellor, Lisa Nandy MP, shadow foreign secretary, Karan Bilimoria, founder and chairman of Cobra Beer, vice-president of the Confederation of British Industry and cross-bench peer, and Rachel Clarke, doctor specialising in palliative care and author of Dear Life, a book on grief and the work of hospices.
60 min
30/04/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from West London with pre-recorded questions from Leeds and questions and comments from social media. On this week's panel: Grant Shapps MP, secretary of state for transport, Conservative; Anneliese Dodds MP, shadow chancellor of the exchequer, Labour; Jeane Freeman MSP, Scottish government health secretary, SNP; Sir Paul Nurse, chief executive of the Francis Crick Institute and former director of the Royal Society; and George Osborne, editor of the Evening Standard, former Conservative MP and chancellor of the exchequer, 2010-2016.
60 min
07/05/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from West London, with audience questions from Newcastle and from social media. On the panel: George Eustice MP, secretary of state for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Conservative; Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, shadow home secretary, Labour; Juergen Maier, industrialist and former chief executive of Siemans UK; Chris Hopson, chief executive, NHS Providers; and Afua Hirsch, writer, broadcaster, and author of a book on British identity - Brit(ish): on Race, Identity and Belonging.
60 min
14/05/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with live and pre-recorded questions, and comments from social media. On the panel: Stephen Barclay MP, chief secretary to the treasury, Conservative; Bridget Phillipson MP, shadow chief secretary to the treasury, Labour; Mick Cash, general secretary of rail, maritime and transport workers; Luke Johnson, entrepreneur, former chairman or owner of various restaurant and bar chains such as Pizza Express, Strada, and Patisserie Valerie; and Devi Sridhar, professor of global public health at Edinburgh University and a member of the Scottish government Covid-19 advisory group.
60 min
21/05/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with questions from London and from social media. Panellists include justice minister Chris Philp, mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, chief executive of Save the Children International and former Prime Minister of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt, playwright and screenwriter James Graham and associate editor of the Daily Telegraph Camilla Tominey.
60 min
28/05/2020
Fiona Bruce presents topical debate with an audience from Glasgow. Panellists include shadow secretary of state for Scotland Ian Murray, deputy first minister and education secretary for the Scottish government John Swinney, Scotland editor of The Spectator and columnist for The Times Alex Massie, Conservative Minister for Care Helen Whately, and director of international relations at the NHS Confederation Layla McCay.
60 min
04/06/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with a virtual audience from Southampton. On the panel: Nadhim Zahawi MP, minister for Business and Industry, Conservative; David Lammy MP, shadow Justice secretary, Labour; Donna Kinnair, chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing; and Hugh Pennington, emeritus professor of bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen.
60 min
11/06/2020
Fiona Bruce presents topical debate with an audience from Cardiff. On the panel: Robert Buckland MP, justice secretary and lord high chancellor of Great Britain, Conservative; Vaughan Gething MS, health and social services minister in the Welsh government, Labour; Liz Saville Roberts MP, leader of Plaid Cymru at Westminster; Rocco Forte, founder of the Rocco Forte luxury hotel chain; and Bernardine Evaristo, author of several novels, including Girl, Woman, Other which won the Booker Prize and was listed by Barack Obama as one of his favourite novels of 2019.
60 min
18/06/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Plymouth. On the panel: James Cleverly MP, former Conservative Party chairman, now minister for the Middle East and North Africa at the Foreign Office, Conservative; Lisa Nandy MP, shadow foreign secretary, Labour; Munira Wilson MP, Health and Social Care spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats; Steve Parish, businessman and chairman of Crystal Palace Football Club; and Jed Mercurio, former hospital doctor and writer of TV dramas such as Line of Duty, Bodyguard and Cardiac Arrest.
60 min
25/06/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience of voters under the age of thirty. Panellists include chief secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay, shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding Jess Phillips, entrepreneur Theo Paphitis, founder of Young Money Iona Bain, and George Mpanga, better known as George the Poet.
60 min
17/09/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Oldham. Panellists include business and industry minister Nadhim Zahawi, shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth, co-founder of Phones4U John Caudwell, bestselling novelist Nicci Gerrard and Sunetra Gupta, infectious disease epidemiologist and Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford.
60 min
24/09/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with a virtual audience from Chingford. On the panel: Alok Sharma MP, secretary of state for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Conservative; Louise Haigh MP, shadow Northern Ireland secretary, Labour; Ed Davey MP, leader, the Liberal Democrats; Peter Borg Neal, founder and chief executive of Oakman Inns; and Devi Sridhar, professor of global public health at the University of Edinburgh and a member of the Scottish Government's coronavirus advisory group.
60 min
01/10/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Carlisle. On the panel: Grant Shapps MP, secretary of state for Transport, with cabinet responsibility for the northern powerhouse, Conservative; Alison McGovern MP, shadow sports minister, Labour; David Linden MP, SNP; Stuart Rose, retailer and chair of Ocado, formerly CEO of Marks and Spencer, and a Conservative peer; and Helen Stokes-Lampard, GP and chair, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.
60 min
08/10/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Coventry. On the panel: Gillian Keegan MP, minister for apprenticeships and skills, Conservative; Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester and former health secretary, Labour; Dame Donna Kinnair, general secretary and chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing; Yanis Varoufakis, economist, author and former finance minister of Greece; and Michael Portillo, television presenter and former Conservative MP and defence secretary.
60 min
15/10/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Edinburgh. On the panel: Douglas Ross MP, leader of the Scottish Conservative Party, Conservative; Seema Malhotra MP, shadow employment minister, Labour; Kate Forbes MSP, finance secretary for the Scottish Government, SNP; Sir Ian Wood, businessman and philanthropist; Miriam Brett, economic advisor and commentator and former advisor to the SNP; and Sir Mark Walport, immunologist, former chief scientific advisor and a member of the government's scientific advisory body, Sage.
60 min
22/10/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Sedgefield. On the panel: Nicky Morgan, former secretary of state for Education and former culture secretary, now a Conservative peer, Conservative; Bridget Phillipson MP, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Labour; Joseph Stiglitz, US economist, former chief economist of the World Bank and winner of the Nobel Prize for economics; Anne Longfield, Children's Commissioner for England; and Stephen Fitzpatrick, founder and chief executive of OVO Energy, the UK's second largest energy supplier.
60 min
29/10/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Lincoln. On the panel: Chris Philp MP, Home Office minister, conservative; Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, shadow home secretary, Labour; Anthony Scaramucci, American financier, republican and former White House chief of communications under Donald Trump; Marie van der Zyl, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews; and Bonnie Greer, playwright, critic and broadcaster.
60 min
05/11/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Lewisham, South London. On the panel, Oliver Dowden MP, secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Conservative, Lisa Nandy MP, shadow foreign secretary, Labour, Hannah Fry, mathematician, author, TV and radio presenter and associate professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL, Simon Wolfson, chief executive of fashion and homeware chain Next, and a Conservative peer, and Rose McGowan, activist and former Hollywood actor.
60 min
12/11/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Dover. On the panel: Matt Hancock MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care; David Lammy MP, Shadow Justice Secretary; Professor Robin Shattock, immunologist; Merryn Somerset Webb, Editor-in-Chief of Money Week; and Rosie Jones, comedian.
60 min
19/11/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Windsor. On the panel are: former Conservative Party Chair and current minister at the Foreign Office, James Cleverly MP; Labour's Shadow Secretary for Trade, Emily Thornberry MP; former investment banker and SNP leader, Ian Blackford; journalist and Editor of The Spectator magazine, Fraser Nelson; and the Bishop of Dover, Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin.
60 min
26/11/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Swansea. On the panel: Conservative MP and the current Business & Industry minister, Nadhim Zahawi; Labour MP and Secretary for Health & Social Services in the Welsh Government, Vaughan Gething; Leader of Plaid Cymru, Adam Price; Brexit Party MP, Baroness Claire Fox; Paralympian, campaigner, and Crossbench Peer, Tanni Grey-Thompson.
60 min
03/12/2020
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Bath. On the panel is Michelle Donelan MP, minister for universities, Conservative, Sarah Jones MP, shadow police and fire services minister, Labour, Peter Openshaw, professor of experimental medicine at Imperial College, immunologist and specialist in respiratory diseases, Liam Halligan, economist, journalist and author of books on the housing crisis and on Brexit, and Tom Kerridge, chef, restaurant owner, author and television presenter.
60 min
10/12/2020
Fiona Bruce presents topical debate with an audience from Chelmsford. Panellists include Robert Buckland MP, justice secretary and Lord high chancellor, Conservative, Wes Streeting MP, shadow schools minister, Labour; Malcolm Turnbull, former prime minister of Australia 2015-18 and twice leader of the Liberal Party in Australia; Anand Menon, Professor of European and foreign politics at King's College London and director of UK in a Changing Europe; and Julia Hartley-Brewer, Talkradio host and columnist.
60 min